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The week in classical: Biennale Musica; Scottish Ensemble; Paraorchestra: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs – review

Work inspired by nuclear destruction was powerful and pensive; a modern group skilfully used age-old techniques and Charles Hazlewood’s disabled and non-disabled players provided an uplifting, immersive experience

The Guardian - UK

Lang: Composition as Explanation album review – Gertrude Stein set to music

David Lang has created a freewheeling concert/lecture mashup based on a 1926 Gertrude Stein lecture and ushered into being by the imperious Eighth Blackbird

The Guardian - UK

Why does the sun make people sneeze?

People who sneeze in bright lights, like the sun, may have autosomal dominant compelling helio-ophthalmic outburst syndrome, or ACHOO.

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Pam Tanowitz and David Lang: Song of Songs review – turning on the lights

Meditation on the Bible’s great love poem can feel opaque but it is performed with great precision and set to a bewitching score

The Guardian - UK

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

Chicago Sun-Times

Steve Reich: Reich/Richter review – intricate riffs on the rhythms of painter’s abstract film

The patterns of a work by Gerhard Richter inspire one of Reich’s most impressive recent pieces, elegantly performed in 2020

The Guardian - UK

The world lost 6 revolutionary composers within a year. How LA, and only LA, is paying tribute

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

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